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Product Description In The China Fantasy, bestselling author James Mann examines the evolution of American policy towards China and asks: Does it make sense? What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China? In this vigorous look at China's political evolution and its future, Mann explores two scenarios popular among the policy elite and poses a third scenario asking: What will happen if China's capitalism continues to evolve and expand but the government fails to liberalize? What then, and why should this third scenario matter to Americans? Mann explores this alternate possibility and, in this must-read book for anyone interested in international politics, offers a startling vision of our future with China that will have a profound impact for decades to come. Review "Lucid, shrewd, and...blessedly level-headed." --New York Times About the Author James Mann, previously Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, is author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of Rise of the Vulcans, About Face, and Beijing Jeep.Jeff Riggenbach has narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he has worked in radio in San Francisco for the last thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence.